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Recently we got the chance to look into the load speed issue for one of the project, we are required to improve API performance for a listing screen. The project was built in AngularJS and API being created in Laravel.

Two of the major listing pages of the application has become hell slow with time, 10 seconds to be exact. The application itself is quite big and is going under heavy development for last 2 years. As it’s a SAAS based so data is growing rapidly. In this article, we are going to present the steps we took to improve API performance and how we managed to reduce the Load time of the Laravel API for listing screens which were taking more than 8 sec to just a sec.

Database Indexing

This is one of the most common mistakes, especially with those teams which don’t have a special database administrator assigned in the project to manage and create the database, and the task of creating the migration is left for the developer. While creating the migrations for the database, or schema in general, developers tend to ignore creating indexes and they generally get away with it for quite long, Until your application is live and data grows to a point where you start feeling the performance issues, those long spinning loaders drops a hint. Continue reading